Fruit-picking bag



Nov. 18, 1930. P. v. KINNEY FRUIT PICKING BAG Filed Nov. 17, 1928 2Sheets-Sheet l N VEN TOR. BY WW1 xf g g dg ATTORNEYS Filed Nov. 1'7,1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

INVE NTOR. fmsz v ATTORNEYS/ the waist at the bottom of the blousedPatented Nov. 18, 1930 4 UNITED STATES PAUL v. KINNEY, or AUSTIN,COLORADO, lissrofnon To AoINmYRE-risHBAcxuse. 00., or PUEBLO, COLORADO,A conronnrronpr COLORADO FRUIT-PICKING'BAG Application filed November17,}928. Serial No. 320,160. I

- This invention relates toa fruit pickers garment and has spec alreference to a garment to be worn by a fruit picker and into which fruitmay be gathered, the garment being provided with means whereby-thegathered fruit may be allowed to fall from the garment into a basket orothersuitable receptacle.

One important object of the inventionis to improve the generalconstructionof devices of th1s character.

A second important object of the invention is to provide a blouse likegarment adapt ed to be put on over the wearers head and provided at theneck, portion with means to hold the front of the neck tightly spacedfrom the body while the waist portion is provided with gathering meansso that the bottom of the garment may be gathered tightly around thewaist and thus hold the fruit dropped in through the neck.

A third important object of the invention is to provide agarment of thisdescription wit a chute or delivery end leading-from ortion and means tonormally hold the .chute elevated to prevent the escape of fruittherefrom;

With the above and other objects in View as will 'be hereinafterapparent, the inven 'tion consists in general of certain novel detailsof construction and combinations of described, illustrated partshereinafter fully in the accompanying rawings and specificallyclaimed.

In the accompanyingldrawin'gslike characters of referenceindicate likeparts inthe several views, and

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a man,

wearing the improved garment,

Figure 2 is a front view of thegarment. Figure 3 is a section onthe-line 3-3 of Figure 2. I

Figure 4 is a front view of the garment with the chute dropped.

Figure5is a section .on' the line 5+5 of Figure 4, the lower edgeof thegarment be,- ing bloused upwardly.

In the construction of this garment thereis provided an upper frontportion 10 having I ening means 16 waist of the wearer.

a downwardly extending strip 11 which forms the front of thedelivery'chute. This front .The top of the neck portion is turned underand. stitched as shown as 15to'the underside of the frontsportion and'in the fold thus formed thereis inserted a rope or other stiff-- whichstiifens the front of the neck and tends to hold it away from'the bodyof the wearer. Reinforcing straps 17 run over the shoulders and betweenthe front and back portion'belowthe arm hole are side gores" 1 8.Secured'tO the front edges of the side gores and to the lateral bottomedge portions of the front lOis a lower front portion 10 formed in twohalves united by stitch ing 20, these halvesbei'ng connected at theirsides to the tube front 11. The 'lower'edges of the portions 19, 18 and15 are doubled and sewed to provide a tubular passage 21 for a drawstring. 22 by garment may be tightly gathered around the I On each ofthe tube portions 19 in spaced relation to the end of the tube is a tab23 carrying a button'24. adapted to be engaged by a fastening loop 25carried on a tab 26 swin ing from the respective reinforcing stripl y aninspection of Figures 2 and 3 it will seen that when gathering the fruitthe tubular portion or delivery spout is doubled up, the lower end beingturned up forwardly to lie against the upper part and thenthe entirespout being turned up to lie against the front lO as clearly shown inFigure 3.

The members 25 are now engaged on the button'24 and the delivery spoutwill'be held in itsraised position. The person wearing the garment maynow gather the fruit, dropping it down the neck portion until the blouseis v.filled to the'extent desired. Hethen goes to unhooks the bruisingor other'damage and afterthe fruit which the bottom of the 7 fruit 7 toinclude all such has all been delivered the spout is again folded up andthe wearer proceeds to gather a fresh supply of fruit.

There has thus been provided a simple and eflicient device of the kinddescribed and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that minor changes may "be made in the form andconstruction of the in- 1 vention without departing from the material 7spirit thereof. his not, therefore, desired to confine the inventiontothe exact iorln' but it is desired.

herein shown and described,

as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is: v I I vA fruit gathering garment including a body forming a blouse and providedwith means for gathering the lower edge closely about the body of thewearer,

' extending from the lower front portion of of thetube upon the bodywardly'against the on the undersidexof said tube to lie in front thelatter being folded=upwardly, and tabs depending from theshoulderiportions of the blouse and carrying loops engageable with saidbuttons.

In testimony whereof I afiix my-signature.

PAUL V. KINNEY;

and foldable forwardly and upa delivery tube front of the body, buttons;

